Advanced Management Program

Fast-track your transition into business leadership through our Advanced Management Program (AMP).

Together, we’ll examine the emerging challenges of the 21st-century workplace, while building your understanding of senior management through an emphasis on managing for the future, building a high-performance organisation and developing your personal leadership abilities.

By learning from our experts – who generally teach MBA programs – you’ll gain the knowledge, insights and skills needed to lead within an everevolving, complex business environment.

Mark Grant
Program Director, Advanced Management Program

Mandy Burns
CEO, Ardoch Youth Foundation

Amanda Bell
Managing Director, Bell Group

Who should attend?

General Managers, preparing for a ‘C suite’ or Managing Director role in a high-growth business

‘C suite’ or Managing Directors who have recently moved into their role in a high-growth business

CEOs or Managing Directors of small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs)

Key benefits

As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

Develop global teams and partnerships

Strengthen cross-cultural mindsets

Lead change and innovation in complexity

Engage futures thinking and enterprise modelling

Foster collaboration across functional and enterprise areas

Improve decision-making across the enterprise

Ensure levers, such as HR, marketing and strategy, deliver results

Establish a culture of performance and accountability

Motivate and develop your team to high performance

Build your leadership story and vision

Activate personal leadership style and self-awareness.

Program journey

Your program journey is designed to ensure you emerge with new skills and behaviours, aligned with your learning goals.

Program preparation

Understanding and accommodating your needs through a conversation with the Program Director

Access to program materials through our online-learning platform

Program (residential)

The following key themes are explored:

Building organisational transformation

Corporate and board governance, reporting and strategy

Activating finance, marketing and HR levers across an organisation

Talent development and workforce pipeline

Influence, power and the ethics of decision-making

Group and team dynamics and their impact on results

Managing for the future

Futures thinking, sustainability and corporate results

Leading change to support futures thinking and innovation

Complexity and disruptive change, digital shift and associated business opportunities

Big data, digital shift, disruptive complexity and decision-making

Corporate culture, diversity and support for global business

Enhancing personal leadership

Your leadership brand, digital brand and media presence

How leadership presence and approach underpins corporate performance

Your brain and leadership: improving engagement with people

Well-being and resilience for corporate executives

Post-program

Participants complete an action-learning project in small groups over a period of two months and report back to a faculty member via video conferencing/Skype or in person

Continued learning through access to program materials and facilitators via our online-learning platform

Note: Program work and activities, including support from our program facilitators, are ongoing over the three-month period, surrounding the workshop component.

Presenters

Zeger Degraeve
Dean, Melbourne Business School
Presenter | Decision Making

Professor Zeger Degraeve joined Melbourne Business School in November 2011 as Dean. On 1 May 2013, he also became Dean of the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Business and Economics.
A leading expert in decision-making, risk, operations research and managing project portfolios, Professor Degraeve spent 12 years at London Business School. At LBS, he was inaugural Associate Dean of the Executive MBA Program and then Deputy Dean Programs, and a member of the School's Governing Body. He has contributed to executive development programs in Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Russia and North America for leading business, such as HSBC, Chevron, Cadbury Schweppes, Merck Serono and Rio Tinto.
His consulting work has spanned operations management, logistics and supply chain management, environmental planning and purchasing strategy development, with clients such as the European Commission and McKinsey & Co.

Mark has over 20 years of experience in merchant and investment banking, including six years at a Chief Executive level.

He has taken both lead and support roles in the discovery, design, development and delivery of executive development programs for both public and private sector clients, including Telstra, Accenture, VicRoads and NAB.

His particular expertise is in working deeply with senior executives on aspects of their personal development as leaders.

Don O'Sullivan
Presenter | Marketing

With more than 20 years’ experience as a marketing consultant and academic in the field, Don is a well-regarded expert with a global perspective, having worked in Australia, Europe and North America. He currently consults to various firms on managing marketing performance and marketing metrics. Don has also led teams in developing award-winning international marketing campaigns.

As a strategy consultant and charted accountant, Geoff is actively involved in advising and consulting to Boards and Senior Management of numerous private and public institutions, in Australia and internationally. Geoff is an accomplished facilitator on Executive Education programs, specialising in Strategy, Finance, and Corporate Governance. Geoff also works with MBS' Indigenous Leader's program (MURRA) and the Social Trader's Crunch program that provides consulting expertise to a wide range of social enterprises and has worked with the Asylum Seeker's Resource Centre.
Read Geoff’s full profile.

Jill Klein
Presenter | Resilience

Jill has delivered executive education programs for more than 15 years. Drawing on her family’s experiences during the Holocaust, Jill’s insights and teachings on resilience have inspired business leaders from around the world. She has worked with large international organisations, including Ericsson, AstraZeneca, Toshiba, Syngenta and Adidas. Her research interests are gift-giving and sharing in impoverished contexts, consumer boycotts, and corporate social responsibility.

Brandon’s research focuses on the emergence and evolution of new markets and industries. He examines firm-level strategies and broader market-level competitive dynamics and institutions and their interrelationships. He has a particular interest in those market niches that arise due to opportunities created by the negative environmental and social externalities associated with conventional means of production. Industry niches such as organic food, renewable energy technologies and green building are all sources of innovation and social change that can reshape consumer preferences and consumption patterns, reframe marketing and distribution, and alter how goods and services are produced.
Read Brandon’s full profile.

In this residential program, participants stay on campus and engage in workshop activities after hours. The program fee covers tuition, meals and accommodation during the workshop. Please apply 4-6 weeks prior to program commencement.